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[Open] There’s a word for that.
These are uncommon names for common things. They have definitions one wouldn’t be surprised to see in The Meaning of Liff (or its sequel, or attached to one of those bastard children thereof, snig...
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It Has a Name??
Yes. Yes it does.
aglet, armsaye, scroop, rowel, ferrule, rasceta, chanking, philtrum, frenulum, keeper, agelast, punt and 285 more...
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The Collection
A somewhat discriminatory list of words and phrases collected for their euphonic or arcane appeal, interesting etymology, or concise definition of an otherwise unnamed phenomenon or concept.
ziggurat, neophilia, sucker punch, soporific, epoch, tundra, fiat, idiotproof, miscellany, metaphysics, cryptozoology, dysphoria and 850 more...
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semantic satiation, halcyon days, brass tacks, niceties, blap, heterophobic, now now
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linguistics
holophrasis, polyglot, interrobang, echolalia, glossolalia, alogia, malapropism, sesquipedalian, hapax legomenon, portmanteau, tautology, epigram and 79 more...
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ruzuzu's taxonomy
limit cycle, gyre, oscillation, meander, general adaptatio..., barchan dune, soliton, guilloche, obverse, involute, damaskeening, superposition and 62 more...
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ruzuzu pterodactyl: I agree--but we should be careful not to say it too often (I'd hate for it to lose its meaning).
yarb: That was sad, but it also made me laugh. (I'm sorry.) Mar 1, 2012
yarb Happened to me this morning in the shower with the word blame. Feb 29, 2012
pterodactyl Ooh, thanks, ruzuzu, for bringing this useful phrase to our attention!
This would be a good candidate for reesetee's "It has a name?!" list. Feb 29, 2012
oroboros Thanks, 'zu. But this can come about w/o repetition in my experience. I guess it belongs in the category of brain fart? :o) Feb 27, 2012
ruzuzu "Semantic satiation (also semantic saturation) is a psychological phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who can only process the speech as repeated meaningless sounds."
--Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Semantic_satiation&oldid=478900133)
The same page tells us the following:
"The phrase "semantic satiation" was coined by Leon Jakobovits James in his doctoral dissertation at McGill University, Montreal, Canada awarded in 1962. Prior to that, the expression "verbal satiation" had been used along with terms that express the idea of mental fatigue." Feb 27, 2012
oroboros I wonder if this has any relation to perseveration. Mar 7, 2010
robmodernistic semantic satiation - where rapid seeing/saying repetition of a word, like canoe-canoe-canoe... produces a loss of meaningfulness, but repetition of a nonsense overt response having the same shape, nuka-nuka-nuka...does not.
taken from :
http://www.hist-analytic.org/SATIATION.htm Jan 21, 2009